Shanghai Ocean Aquarium

Shanghai Ocean Aquarium

Shanghai Ocean Aquarium
Date opened	2002
Location	Shanghai, China
Coordinates	31°14′33″N 121°29′50″E / 31.242554°N 121.49717°E / 31.242554; 121.49717Coordinates: 31°14′33″N 121°29′50″E / 31.242554°N 121.49717°E / 31.242554; 121.49717
Land area	20,500 m2 (221,000 sq ft)
No. of species	>450
Volume of largest tank	2,200 m3 (580,000 U.S. gal)
Total volume of tanks	4,900 m3 (1,300,000 U.S. gal)
Annual visitors	one million
Website	www.sh-aquarium.com/en/html/index.aspx

The Shanghai Ocean Aquarium (Chinese: 上海海洋水族馆) is a public aquarium located in Shanghai, China.

Designed by Advanced Aquarium Technologies, the aquarium includes a 120-meter (390 ft) tunnel that takes visitors through a coastal reef, open ocean, a kelp cave, shark cove, and a coral reef, and is one of the longest such tunnels in the world.

Whitetip reef shark